A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived from around 23 million to around 3.6 million years ago, during which time it occupied a prime position at the top of the food web, before being ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

Fifty years after Jaws hit theaters, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about sharks, which lends to their reputation as mysterious predators. There’s even more we don’t know about ancient sharks, ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

NEW YORK — Today’s sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bites ...

The Meg was shaped more like a whale than the giant great white shark in the Jason Statham movies, suggests new research. Megalodon, the prehistoric ocean hunter, was a "longer, sleeker super predator ...

Megalodon, the terror of the Neogene, dominated its giant shark niche for just 20 million years before it disappeared from the world's oceans. And, during that time ...